Howdy Friends,
Life is a vast conglomeration of many things. And isn’t that
a most wonderful gift? We are offered so much as we traverse this world, love,
wonderment, beauty, friendship, adventure, families, friends and the list could
more than fill a book. Along the way we are blessed, each of us, with our share
of adversity too.
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Adversity as a blessing? I’m pretty sure none of us feel
that way in the midst of a visit from the trouble making adversity monster, but
when it’s behind us we are most often strengthened by the trial. Still I suppose
I’m not real sure about calling adversity a blessing, how about more of seasoning?
Or just simply a part of our wonderful life.
Being happy is much more fun than being angry, stressed or
worried, so let’s think about the adversity challenge just a second, and how we
can turn sad into happy. Many of our Coffee Clutch and Facebook friends know of
my motto, “Ignore the negative and celebrate the positive.” That’s the first
rule, works just as it sounds it might. Now of course not every bad thing can
be ignored, some things simply need to be faced head on, dealt with. But every
good thing can, and should be, celebrated.
Here is the trick, face the bad head on, with only as much effort
and attention it requires to deal with it. No matter if it is a big bad or a
little bad. Don’t dwell on, procrastinate, worry and fret as that only feeds
it, empowers it. It can turn little bads into big bads, and empower big bads to
consume you. No, instead jump right in, take charge and fix it, even if your
fix is not perfect, that will starve it, weaken it and it will become resolved
and go away. I’ll never forget what a friend told me once as I struggled long
and hard with a mighty big bad, “A year from now you’ll look back at this and
it’ll be okay.” He was right.
Don’t worry about getting it just right, that’s what bad
wants you to do, so you hang out with it. Then it can grow. But if you deal with
it so it’s over, gone and out of mind, it disappears into nowhere land and your
world is swimming in happy. And you can look back at it and know it’s okay. Remember
this, our first reaction, strategy and plan is almost always our best and strongest
plan ... I’ll bet you’ve noticed that already. So why dwell on the bad trying
to make it perfect. Bad cannot be made perfect, only handled. And each time you
handle it, your happy becomes stronger, and a larger part of you.
Then you can focus on HAPPY ... Celebrate the POSITIVE! The
more energy, thought and time you focus on happy the stronger that part of you
becomes. Just like building muscles. The more consumed you become with seeing good,
being happy, the harder it is for negative to touch you. It’ll become afraid of
the powerful happy you!
The wonderful thing about focusing on happy, celebrating the
positive, is how easy it is to get started. Go ahead and give it a try, quickly
you’ll see how happy takes charge, and adversity becomes just a little seasoning
in life. The main course is goodness, if you feed it.
Gitty Up, Dutch Henry
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